Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: devicetree: fix refcount leak in pinctrl_dt_to_map()

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 06:53:28PM +0800, Zeng Heng wrote:
> If we fail to allocate propname buffer, we need to drop the reference
> count we just took. Because the pinctrl_dt_free_maps() includes the
> droping operation, here we call it directly.

..

>  	for (state = 0; ; state++) {
>  		/* Retrieve the pinctrl-* property */
>  		propname = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "pinctrl-%d", state);
> -		if (!propname)
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> +		if (!propname) {
> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			goto err;
> +		}
>  		prop = of_find_property(np, propname, &size);
>  		kfree(propname);
>  		if (!prop) {
>  			if (state == 0) {
> -				of_node_put(np);
> -				return -ENODEV;
> +				ret = -ENODEV;
> +				goto err;

Has it been tested? How on earth is this a correct change?

We iterate over state numbers until we have properties available. This chunk is
_successful_ exit path, we may not free parsed maps! Am I wrong?

>  			}
>  			break;
>  		}

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko